17 Quotes by Paul Klee
- One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
- One eye sees, the other feels.
- The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
- Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
- A line is a dot that went for a walk.
- A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
- Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
- A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
- Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
- In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
- He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
- Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
- When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
- Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
- To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
- The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
- Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
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